Per K. Sørensen
Per Kjeld Sørensen is a prominent Danish Tibetologist who specialises in Tibetan and Himalayan history, literature and culture. From 1994 to 2017 he held the chair of Professor of Central Asian Studies (Zentralasienwissenschaften, Tibetology and Mongol Studies) at Leipzig Universität, Germany, which is the second-oldest university in Germany and has a long tradition of Oriental studies. In 2017 he was the Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhism at the University of California, Berkeley. (Sources: Berkeley Events and Wikipedia Entry)
An interview and detailed biographical information can be found in the book Gateways to Tibetan Studies, Hamburg Indian and Tibetan Studies 12, 2021.
